Sponsors & Contributors

The Canadian Communications Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable organization - Registration # 10684 4517 RR001. It was established by the Canadian Association of Broadcasters in 1967 as a Centennial project, with an initial grant of $25,000,but it was not until many years later that the advent of the Internet offered the Foundation an ideal opportunity to "commemorate throughout Canada the development of electronic communications", and the website was born, with a new mandate "....to chronicle and document, in sight and sound, the History of Canadian Broadcasting..."

The original grant from the CAB was to be followed by the raising of some $50,000 in donations from broadcast industry organizations and individuals, and a substantial donation from the Canadian Association of Broadcast Representatives. Then in the year 2000, the Foundation was fortunate to be included in the Tangible Benefits package of grants which was required as a commitment from BCE when they purchased CTV that year. This was later followed by grants from CTV, Astral and Corus, as well as further corporate and private donations from broadcasters.

The Foundation has received no funding from the public purse, has a volunteer Board and no fulltime staff or offices. Its sole current (December 2017) source of income is the annual sum received from Corus as part of the Tangible Benefits Package that attended the company's acquisition of several broadcast properties in December 2013.

Below are listed all those corporations and individuals whose generosity has enable the Canadian Communications Foundation to provide this History of Canadian Broadcasting, a unique collection of information on the evolution of the broadcasting system that serves Canadians from coast to coast, and from the US border to the Arctic. As we thank all those present and past for their valued help, we would ask today's broadcasters to show their support for our work by considering our Foundation as worthy of inclusion in their Tangible Benefits Packages when contemplating new acquisitions. Individual donations will also be very much appreciated, and will of course be tax receiptable. Donors may remain anonymous should they so wish.

This website has been made possible by the generosity of these corporations and individuals, and from donors who wished to remain anonymous.